We’re grateful to be among a community of educators who go above and beyond to ensure they’re inspiring their students in innovative ways. When challenged with the Next Generation Science or Common Core Standards, Flipgrid teachers exceed “standard” and stimulate active, engaged learning.

We've identified a series of ways in which your students can achieve these objectives with Flipgrid. For additional standards-aligned integration docs, visit our new Flipgrid Integration Center.

Editor's Note: As of June 18, 2018, all of Flipgrid (formally our premium "Flipgrid Classroom") is free! Check out the details over here!

Offering both educators and students a refreshed interface, slew of new features, and overall upgraded experience, the all-new Flipgrid is more powerful than ever and still innately simple. Learn how in the video below.

Unlimited Responses. Unlimited Topics. Unlimited Grids.

With Flipgrid 4.0 we've made our simple educator pricing even better. For $65 a year, teachers can now create as many grids and topics as they'd like, share with whoever they want, and collect an unlimited number of responses.

Take student conversation to the next level, literally.

We've heard it a lot: our users want to allow the members of their community to respond directly to each other’s responses. Now they can. Educators can enhance their active, social classroom by allowing students to build on other’s ideas or challenge a peer’s logic, provide direct feedback, or answer questions.

Say “cheese,” then say some more.

Flipgrid has been completely redesigned to make genuine discussion easier and more intuitive. Videos are higher quality, load faster, and can be viewed from any device.

More customization and more integration.

Join the conversation, anywhere.

With a social-media-feel, the new Flipgrid Android and iOS apps are modeled on student’s familiarity with the apps they already use. They remain intuitive, discussion-focused, and free with an updated look and feel. Using your unique grid code, students can easily join the conversation from their mobile or tablet device.

Get on the grid.

Start your Flipgrid experience today with a free trial. Already a Flipgrid admin? All existing accounts have been automatically upgraded for free. Log in to start exploring!

NPR reporter Anya Kamenetz interviewed Harvard's Director of the Science Education Department and professor, Dr. Philip Sadler, in her piece, "The Importance Of Getting Things Wrong." In the article, Dr. Sadler emphasizes the value of having students think out loud to identify their misconceptions.

Dr. Sadler praises Socratic teaching by "asking questions and having students think out loud." Crucial in all fields and especially applicable in STEAM, he conveys "if you don't understand the flaws in students' reasoning, you're not going to be able to dislodge their misconceptions and replace them with the correct concepts."

Many educators have shared they use Flipgrid for this exact purpose. One recent example is Dr. Ramesh Laungani, professor of Biology at Doane University. In his Flipgrid story, Dr. Laungani explains how Flipgrid enables him to challenge his students and analyze their learning. He notes that Flipgrid, "not only helped my students learn to clearly and concisely articulate ideas and questions that they had, but it also allowed me to identify any misconceptions."

Just as Dr. Laungani does, Dr. Sadler posits that great educators hone in on flawed reasoning and "give students exposure to the information and experience that will enable them to reason their way to the right answer." We love our innovative community of educators who do just this and use Flipgrid to amplify student voice, identify misconceptions, and empower students with enriched learning.

In their book, Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children, co-authors Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, professor at Temple University, and Roberta Golinkoff of the University of Delaware, discuss the importance of engagement with children as they mature. During an interview with NPR reporter, Anya Kamenetz, the duo highlighted a few important notes from their work.

The authors challenge us to “change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means," emphasizing the 21st-century report card with six C’s: collaboration, communication, content, critical thinking, creative innovation, and confidence. Explaining the six C’s in order of importance, co-author Hirsh-Pasek lists

The first, basic, most core is collaboration … It's building a community and experiencing diversity and culture. Everything we do, in the classroom or at home, has to be built on that foundation.

Communication comes next, because you can't communicate if you have no one to communicate with. This includes speaking, writing, reading and that all-but-lost art of listening.

Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.

Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.

And finally, confidence: You have to have the confidence to take safe risks.

All of the six C's are intrinsic elements of the Flipgrid experience. Flipgrid provides a space for collaboration and communication among your community of students. As an admin, you generate prompts for students to discus, thereby building content and generating critical thinking. Students practice critical thinking by learning to articulate their thoughts and analyzing the work of themselves and others. Building ingenuity, students become familiar with the content and identifying gaps in understanding, begin making connections, and spur creative innovation. Finally, Flipgrid builds confidence by allowing students to practice and re-record in whatever environment they feel most comfortable.

Ultimately, student success comes down to promoting safe risks. Golinkoff notes, "There isn't an entrepreneur or a scientific pioneer who hasn't had failures. And if we don't rear children who are comfortable taking risks, we won't have successes." Thank you to everyone in our educator community who use Flipgrid to encourage their students to take safe risks and build the confidence to be successful!

Johnson laments, “even though educators acknowledge the weaknesses of presentation-based professional development, 80 percent of teachers still participate in a sit and get each year.” She lists, specifically, in professional learning opportunities, teachers seek:

Relevance and personalized learning (two features celebrated in a Flipgrid discussion)

Engagement (a cornerstone of Flipgrid’s being)

Guidance from their peers (embodied in Flipgrid's peer-to-peer, social learning nature)

Conversation that extends beyond a specific date and time (encapsulated by Flipgrid’s asynchronous nature)

To be treated as a professional (Flipgrid gives everyone an equal voice - educators, coaches, and students alike)

Expanding on this list, Johnson discusses the issues with current professional development, challenges faced by educators, and a charge to make learning better for everyone. She summarizes that “we owe it to [educators] to find new ways to ensure that PD is relevant, interactive, and sustained over time.”

Well said, Karen. Join the growing community of educators using Flipgrid, the collaborative, active video platform, with Professional Development!